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Ayanna Pressley

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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.

Quotes by year · 201120261,152 total · peak 2019 (443)
2011: 3 quotes2018: 2 quotes2019: 443 quotes2020: 150 quotes2021: 190 quotes2022: 118 quotes2023: 79 quotes2024: 113 quotes2025: 43 quotes2026: 11 quotes
Feb 7, 2022

The climate crisis is not a theoretical problem for the future. It is an imminent problem and crisis right now.

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Feb 7, 2022

Let's recognize carbon capture for what it is. ... it is a delay tactic and a distraction.

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Feb 7, 2022

Let's be done with it. Let's end 45Q that gives tax breaks to companies that say they are going to build yet haven't.

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Feb 7, 2022

Carbon capture is not proven and its risks are catastrophically dangerous.

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Feb 7, 2022

Let's continue to highlight the harmful effects on our most vulnerable communities, and I think we can start to make some real impacts there.

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Feb 2, 2022

at the end of the day, infrastructure, in its development and implementation, has the potential to divide or to bridge, to enforce oppression or to dismantle it, and we have to learn the lessons of the past and chart a better course.

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Feb 2, 2022

for too long, our traditional infrastructure investments and policies have really exacerbated inequities and disparities in our communities.

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Feb 2, 2022

the 1956 Interstate Highway Act... resulted in the displacement of more than 1 million people and more than 475,000 families in just 2 decades.

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Feb 2, 2022

Our communities lost access to jobs and other critical resources, divestment that to this very day contributes to the racial wealth gap in our nation.

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Jan 19, 2022

At the age of 86 years young today, we give Willie O'Ree his flowers. Go Bruins.

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Jan 18, 2022

We need consumer confidence to rally. We need people to feel safe and want to travel and spend their money on entertainment...

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Jan 18, 2022

While the PPP money and the Save Our Stages money was critical to keeping our employees on payroll this last year...

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